The return on investment for a deck is 91.1 percent for homes in the West, with the average cost of a deck stated at $16,297. That means the deck will add $14,846 to the selling price of the home. This percentage beats those in the South or Midwest, where a deck returns just 76.8 percent of investment upon resell.

Have we fallen out of love with granite? I would never ask this question except that an article by Liz Pulliam Weston on MSN Real Estate titled “The Hottest Remodeling Trends for 2011″ suggests that, yes, granite is old school, so 1990s. [...]

The new kitchen? It’s ‘100% us’ A Glassell Park couple get personal in their latest redo — down to the cat-feeding station. As Kristina Johnson and David Franke discovered while remodeling their Glassell Park kitchen, taking [...]